Guided tour operator with 170+ curated experiences across seven continents
Collette runs a 501–1,000 person guided travel business founded in 1918, now modernizing its technology stack. The company is mid-transition from monolithic architecture to microservices while building next-generation pricing and customer web products on Azure, C#, and React. Hiring skews operational and sales (7 of 12 open roles) rather than engineering, suggesting the tech work is scoped internally while the business focuses on travel acquisition and fulfillment challenges.
Collette operates a guided tour business offering over 170 expertly curated trips across all seven continents. The company serves leisure travelers seeking structured, culturally immersive experiences, with divisions across the United States, Canada, and Australia. Revenue depends on group bookings, air schedules, and operational execution in the field. Internally, the business faces typical mid-market travel operator pressures: tour disruptions, vendor quality variability, tight profit margins, and the need to fill seats against seasonal demand while managing cost-of-travel headwinds.
Azure, C#, SQL Server, Docker, Kubernetes, React, Node.js, and Next.js. The company also uses WPF and Windows Forms for legacy desktop applications, plus Adobe Creative Suite for campaign development.
Yes, but minimally. Engineering has 2 active open roles (of 12 company-wide), with 1 junior and 1 senior slot. Ops (4), sales (3), and finance/marketing (1 each) have larger hiring pipelines.
Pawtucket, Rhode Island. The company also has divisions in Canada and Australia and is actively hiring in the United States and Norway.
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